Dean de la MotteDean de la Motte is assistant professor of French at Guilford College. He has published articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture; on Flaubert, Hugo, and Huysmans; and on bureaucracy, decadence, and utopia. He is coeditor of Making theNews: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France (forthcoming). He is at work on Going Nowhere Fast, a study of narratives of progress in nineteenth-century France. Read More Read Less